Data show that women experience unique causes of housing instability and challenges when experiencing homelessness, according to a survey conducted by Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism team. Often,

Faced with a homeless services system largely built for men, women experiencing domestic abuse may find themselves choosing between violence and the street.

she soon experienced homelessness, bouncing between her parents’ and friends’ couches. Eventually, she stayed at three different domestic violence shelters in the years to come after a second ...

The Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team surveyed 150 women from July through October 2024 across eleven women’s daytime and overnight shelters throughout the Pacific Northwest.

“I would agree with that,” said Sharman Davenport, CEO of Turning Point, a nonprofit agency that provides services to survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking including advocacy and counseling, emergency shelter as well as programs for transitional and rapid housing.

To break free from the domestic abuse and to protect her children, Rachel experienced homelessness in hopes of something safer on the other side.

Friday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced nearly $3.6 billion in Continuum of Care (CoC) program awards for nearly 7,000 projects that provide housing assistance and supportive services to people experiencing homelessness,

Forcing survivors to litigate their restraining order hearings is a regular reality — and a gaping fault in a system that continues to fail battered women, advocates say.

A bill banning Norman and most Oklahoma towns from providing homeless services will be rewritten following an outcry over its possible effects, its author said in a recent interview. State Sen. Lisa Standridge,

To help combat the ongoing housing crisis, the state Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) announced a total of $5,503,981 in new Emergency So